Who can consume a web service?
A web service can be consumed by a client application. Different types of client applications can comsume a web service. In today?s software environment, almost every application need a web service to enhance its functionality. The important advantage of a web service is that it returns its results in xml format, which can be consumed by different types of clients like browser based clients, rich desktop clients, spreadsheets, wireless devices, interactive voice response(IVR) systems and other business applications. A client application discovers an web service, and then uses services provided by the web service. This process is known as consuming a Web service. In this article, we learn how to Creating a client application Creating a proxy Consuming the web service using the proxy Creating a client application The client application we will create is a web application with the capability to consume a web service. The first step is Click File->New-> Web site. This action displays the N
